World Migratory Bird Day
9th Oct
World Migratory Bird Day is celebrated twice a year on the 8th of May and on the 9th of October, and it was initiated in 2006 by the Secretariat of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), and it is aimed at raising awareness regarding the conservation of migratory birds and their habitats.
World Migratory Bird Days thus can be used as effective means to help raise global awareness about the threats these migratory birds face. This Day also is aimed at raise more ecological importance about birds, and foster international cooperation to conserve them.
Launched in Kenya (Africa) in 2006 and later also supported by the UN-backed, the World Migratory Bird Day is celebrated on two days each year is it to say the second Saturday of May and the second one in October in order to accommodate the cyclical nature of migration.
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